“Every time?”

“Every time.” He moved a police car to the end of the line.

“This one stays back here with me.”

I sat down on the rug with my back to the wall.

He handed me a green car without looking up.

Elsie came down the hall trailing a blanket, crawled into my lap, and stuck her thumb in her mouth.

Micah drove the ambulance around my knee twice and parked it.